Integrated remote controller distinguishing home appliances by deep learning

Abstract

This paper describes a method for distinguishing various home appliances with separate remote controllers and integrating control with a single remote controller. We propose that images of home appliances can be obtained with a camera, after which the appliances can be distinguished from each other by a convolutional neural network. We developed an experimental system to evaluate our proposed method and demonstrated that the system could distinguish different home appliances with a high accuracy of 99%.